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"plates, consisting su UNITED 4STATES PATENT OFFICE'.

`WILLIAM K. WILLIAMS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MiCI-II GAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

SHOW-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, ).Qit

Application filed July 21,1905 Sefial No. 270,617.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM K. WILLIAMS,

' proveniente in the show-case shown in patent to'me, No. 788,979, dated May 2, 1905.

The object of my present invention is to provide means whereby the joints between the front and end plates may be adjusted and kept tight, to providea more rigid structure, and to provide the device with various new and useful features, and it consists, in addition to the structure shown in said patent, of means for adjustin and holding the end stantially of a llexible tongue inserted in the groove of the back frame near `the bottom thereof a id a head` and Fig. 3', a horizontal section of the same.v

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

. l re resents the end, 2 the front, and 3 the to o. a show-case, said end, front, and top being' of platelass. between the e es of the end plate 1 and the front and top pates. 5 represents the back of the ease, which is provided with a groove 9 4 is a felt packing-strip.

to receive vthe rear edge ofthe end plate i, ali as shown in Patent No. 788,979.

My improvement consists of the addition of a headless screw 6, inserted in a horizontal opening in the back 5 and engaging a iiexible strip 8, preferably of metal, inserted in the bottoni of the groove 9 and adapted to yieldu ingly engage the edge of the plate l to force the same toward the plate 2. 7 is a nut embedded in the bach .5, with which the screw engages. By turning this screw inward 'the strip 8 is forced against the p i and moves the same forward to ciosoiy r plate 2 and at the same time dy heid'. the lower part of the plate from mowing, andthue insures a rigid and substantial etructru'e re gardlcss of any shrinking or er. woodwork of the back or close same to the edge of the plate. strip 8, interposed between the sci w edge of the plate, prevents the screw from grinding and breaking the plate.

Having thus fully described my invention,- what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters.

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l. In a show-case, the combination of a front plate, an end plate having its front edge l in engagementwith the front plate, a back frame having a lgroove to receive the rear edge of the end plate, a 4flexible strip in the groove, and a screw in the back frame and engaging the said strip to force the same against the rear edge of the end plate.

2. In a show-case, the combination of e front plate, an end plate having its front edge engaging the front plate, a back fra-ine having a groove to receive the rear edge of the end plate, a flexible strip and a nut om bedded in the backframe at the bottom of the groove, and a `headless sc rew within the hacia. frame and engaging the nut and flexible strip. Inl testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. l

WILLIAM K. WILLIAMS. Witnesses;

LUTHER V. MoUL'IoN, SAML. D. YOUNG.

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